Before you get inside, most hospitals tend to present you with a sort of puzzle that could well make an interesting computer game entitled:
CAR PARK.
The objectives include:
1. find somewhere to park: bonus points if you find a place within a mile of your appointment;
2. remember where you parked: more bonus points if you ever fine your car again;
3. get to your appointment on time: special prize here of a refund of the parking fee of £1.000.
There are also bonuses for deciphering - correctly - the real meaning of new language puzzles,e.g.
"You will find it straight down there, turn right and it's just round the corner."
Conditions apply, like not having to ask anyone a second time what this means when you have turned the corner.
Other misleading clues to decipher will be:
"We shall be with you soon":
"We should not be very long now":
"We hope to be with you in a few minutes":
"We are expecting the results back shortly".
(Here you must also discover the identities of "we").
"I will go and chase that up now":
"We need to confirm your details: name? how old were you when you arrived here?"
This is where we seem to spend more time these days - Poole Hospital. We went there today
We were there quite a long time but, strangely, we didn't mind because there were all sorts of interesting people to talk with about their problems, their families, details of their operations, their consultants, how long they had lived here, where they lived before, how much to everyone's surprise they liked Milton Keynes when they lived there.
And then, best of all, how kind, helpful and courteous the staff were; even including the man who was fitting a new mortice lock to a door that the whole world seemed to want to get through.
How anybody can find fault with the National Health Service is beyond me, especially at Poole.
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